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Posts Tagged ‘Kerry Mullis’

Kerry Mullis is great. Not only did he invent PCR but he’s fun to listen to!

In a previous post Discovering PCR on the road to Mendocino we heard Kerry tell us about his adventurous discovery. In the TED talk below, Mullis talks about the basis of modern science: the experiment. Sit back and enjoy!

What’s the connection between PCR and Mendocino, California? Everyone knows that Kerry Mullis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993 for his improvement of PCR, but did you know that his methodology was hatched on the road to his cottage in Mendocino?